Instrumentation The Mu-4000 analyzer uses instrumentation
for several purposes:
- To
ensure that the service is up by validly interacting with it
- To
verify that the service can process expected levels of traffic or to be
certain that expected levels of traffic never constitute a
denial-of-service condition
- To
audit the configuration or behavior of the system compared to an
established baseline or design specification
- To
measure the response-time latency for valid service.
There are a few different uses for
instrumentation:
Mutations
Instrumentation is used in the
context of Mutation
Analysis to establish
that the service is ready to be tested, to discover the traffic that is
relevant to this service, as well as periodically throughout the analysis to
ensure that the service is still up. Instrumentation is also used to create a response-time
chart. Every time the service is probed using valid traffic, the
latency of its response is measured.
Denial
of Service (DoS)
Instrumentation is used in the
context of Denial-of-Service
(DoS) Analysis to
establish that a particular service is up and ready to be tested as well as
periodically throughout the analysis to ensure that the service is still up, as
well as to measure the service's response-time.
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